In
the first step of such a
process, in the manner proposed in [1]},
every Hermiticity relation
for a metric (REF )
becomes re-interpreted
as a crypto-Hermiticity
requirement
\(Z_j^{\ddagger (j+1)}\,Z_{j+1}=Z_{j+1}\,Z_j\,,\ \ \ \ j=0,1,\ldots ,K-2\,\) 
